Improvement in fire-proof partitions



No. M4501.

` 2Sheets-.I-Sheet2.-

C. F. BRAND.

Fire-Proof Partitions.

Patented Nov. 11,1873- i l FIGB mines; s

' 6 gay dfmqy UNITED STATES PATENT i OFFICE.

CHARLES F. BRAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTURAL IRON COMPANY, OFKSAME PLACE.'

IMPROVEMENT lN` FIRE-PROOF PARTITIONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,501, dated November 11, 1873 application filed October 31, 1873.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known thatA I, CHARLES F. BRAND, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Partitions for Buildings, of which the following isa specication:

My invention relates to the combination of sheets of corrugated iron, which take the place of walls or frame-work as ordinarily used, and sheets of iron or other metal of suitable construction for holding the plasteriug, as hereinafter described.

Figure l is a plan view of a section of a partition, the top plate E being removed. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, a portion of the lathing sheets being removed. Fig. 3, Sheet No. 2, is a vertical section at the line x .c of Figs. l and 2. Fig. 4 is an isometrical view of one of the head-plates E.-

Like letters iny all the figures indicate the same parts.

` construction of the laths, but prefer making them in sheets B, as shown in the drawings, which are made of plain sheets of iron or other metal, so bent as to form grooves over their surfaces, the short receding angles a tending to hold the plastering securely against the surface angles b of the sheets. These sheets I make by means of a machine constructed especially for the purpose. As it forms the subject of a distinct application, its peculiar construction is omitted in this.

There are clips O confined to the lath-sheetsB by means of rivets D. Their free ends ai'epassed through openings d ofthe corrugated sheets A, and bent down upon the same, as represented in the drawings, whereby the sheets A B are held very irmly together. Other means may be used for confining the sheets, if desirable. The corrugated sheets A are held securely at their top and bottom edges by means of plates E E, which have flanges@ e, that come against the corrugations, as seen in Fig. 3. The plates E are fastened to the oor and ceiling, or timbers of the same, by means of screws or nails.

Partitions constructed in the manner represented have great lateral strength in proportion to the amount of material, and may be very expeditiously constructed.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of sheet-metal laths with corrugated sheets A to form partitions, the laths being confined by means of 'clips O or other suitable fastening, substantially as described. I

2. The combination of the ilangedplates E E with the corrugated sheets A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

rCHARLES F. BRAND.

Witnesses I STEPHEN Usrroi, GRO. TAYLOR. 

